DR adds silver and two bronzes in Bolivarian Games: Day’s summary

LIMA, Peru. The Dominican Republic delegation concluded the fifth day of the XX Bolivarian Sports Games with an outstanding performance, adding a total of three medals: one silver and two bronze. The competitions took place in the cities of Lima and Ayacucho.

Summary of the Day

The women’s badminton team, made up of Nairobi Jiménez and Clarissa Confident, secured the silver medal. For their part, the women’s softball team won the bronze after defeating Bolivia. In sailing, Samuel Pérez Camacho added another bronze in the IQFOIL modality. With these results, the Dominican delegation accumulates a total of 14 medals (1 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze), placing in eighth position in the overall medal table. For this Friday, the action continues with the start of the taekwondo tournament in Ayacucho, and the men’s field hockey team will advance to the medal definition round.

Women’s Softball: Bronze by Knockout

The Dominican women’s softball team won the bronze medal by defeating Bolivia with a resounding 10-0. The match was played at the Andrés Avelino Cáceres Complex. Pitcher Eduarda Rocha had an outstanding performance, pitching a no-hitter for four innings, giving up two walks and striking out three, leading to the knockout in the fourth inning.

The Dominican offense connected 13 hits, highlighting the following players:

• Emmy Segura: 3-2, four RBIs and one run scored.
• Brianna Estévez: 3-2, two runs scored and one RBI.
• Felicia de los Santos: 3-3, one run scored and one RBI.
• Claudia Santana: 3-2.
• Anabel Ulloa: 2-1, two runs scored and one walk.

Dominican women concluded with a 4-3 record, maintaining the bronze obtained in the Bicentennial Bolivarian Games held previously in Ayacucho-Lima.

Badminton: Silver Assured

The Dominican duo of Nairobi Jiménez and Clarissa Confident won the silver medal in the women’s doubles final, after falling to the Guatemalans Nikte Sotomayor and Diana Corletto with scores of 21-11 and 21-15.

Coach Maikel Moreno highlighted the team’s progress, emphasizing that this result is part of the recovery process of Dominican badminton.

Maikel Moreno

To reach the final, Jiménez and Confident defeated the Colombian pair Juliana Giraldó Andrade and Karen Patiño 2-1 in the semifinals, and in the quarterfinals they beat the Salvadorans Daniel Hernández and Fátima Centeno 2-0.

Candle: Bronze for Samuel Pérez Camacho

In Paracas Bay, Samuel Antonio Pérez Camacho won the bronze medal in the IQFOIL sailing modality. Pérez Camacho recorded a time of 21 minutes and a net score of 18, after a consistent performance in the eight rounds of the event. The gold went to the Venezuelan José Gregorio Estredo Pérez, and the silver to the Peruvian Bruno Mendoza Orihula.

Field Hockey

The Dominican Republic men’s team fell 6-2 to Venezuela in the pre-semifinal phase, in a match held at the Villa del Triunfo. The Dominican team occupies the third overall position with six points (2-2), behind Chile and Venezuela. The two Dominican goals were scored by Francisco Javier García. The medal matches will be played this Friday: the bronze at 11:00 a.m. (12:00 p.m. DR) and the gold at 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. DR).

Canoeing

The Dominican quartet composed of Ariel Martínez Jiménez, Cristian Guerrero García, Juan Plasencia Feliz and Rafael Feliz Abreu finished in fourth position in the K4 200m kayak modality, recording a time of 34.17 seconds. In K2 200m, Cristian Guerrero and Rafael Enrique Feliz Abreu also took fourth place with a time of 35.97 seconds.